I worked as a sexual assault nurse examiner years ago and one of the aspects of the training was to drive home the fact that one day your charting could be held up in front of a judge and jury--could you imagine a lawyer reading that out in front of an entire courtroom???

::head:laptop:: This is the point of time when I wish I was able to say things like "Excuse me, Mr/s. Idiot, would you please leave my room and call me a real doctor?" or ring for a real medical professional, such as a nurse and say, "I'm sorry but could you find me Mr/s. Idiot's supervisor and have them removed. I need a real doctor."

Unfortunately I normally am in so much pain in these situations that it's hard to do this and my husband isn't very good at it. ::sigh::

Several years ago I went to the ER with what ended up being diagnosed as a TIA....the ER doc told my family I had a sinus infection. Left side was numb, I had no short term memory, among other symptoms. He said that 19 year olds in otherwise good health don't have strokes. It was either a sinus infection or a migraine.

That's hilarious, especially considering that when my husband went to the ER with stroke like symptoms, the doctor basically DXed him with "TIA, or stroke, or headache, or some other type of neuro thingy". Happened a year ago and we still don't know what really happened.

Man, if you're gonna take the time to write all that, why not "suspect neuro etiology"? Then you get fancy points without committing to any diagnosis at all! Plus, you know, you don't use "neurology thing" in a legal document.

Welcome to my whining!

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